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Arnie Alpert spent decades as a community organizer/educator in NH movements for social justice and peace, including a year as a member of the Clamshell Alliance office collective. Officially retired since 2020, he keeps his hands (and feet) in the activist world while writing about past and present social movements.
Nur Shoop remembers meeting Valerie Cunningham for the first time about fifteen years ago at a meeting of the Seacoast NAACP. Shoop asked Cunningham to sign her copy of Black Portsmouth, a book Cunningham had co-authored based on decades of historical research.
On Saturday, five years after it launched a campaign using nonviolent civil disobedience to shut down a coal-fired power plant in Bow, New Hampshire, No Coal No Gas held a celebration in Pembroke’s Memorial Park marking the commitment of the plant’s owner, Granite Shore Power, to end coal combustion in 2027 and convert the facility to a “renewable energy park.”
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After 59 days on strike, the union representing Dartmouth College graduate students has approved its first contract, winning a substantial pay increase, expanded benefits, and protections against unfair treatment.
Five New Hampshire peace activists arrested a month ago at the Dover office of Congressman Chris Pappas pleaded not guilty to criminal trespass charges Monday morning at Dover District Court and were scheduled for a trial on Oct. 29.
“There are a lot of people coming to the realization that firearms in your home don’t necessarily make you safer,” she said, and Guns to Gardens offers a solution.
The border between Eagle Pass, Texas, and Piedras Negras in the Mexican state of Coahuila used to be open, like the one between Derby Line, Vermont and Stanstead, Quebec.
At the age of 46, after decades of protest and action, Flynn joined the Communist Party while the group was campaigning against fascism and promoting a “popular front” in support of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.
Five New Hampshire supporters of an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza were arrested late Friday afternoon when they refused to leave U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas’ Dover office, where they had been sitting quietly for about three hours.
The union representing hundreds of Dartmouth College graduate student-workers says it will go on strike Wednesday, May 1 after eight months of bargaining and what the union calls the college administration’s “grossly inadequate” responses to union proposals.